San Jose de Catalunia

San Jose de Catalunia was a colony of Spain in Venezuela, founded in 1653.

History
San Jose de Catalunia was founded in 1653 in what is now Venezuela by the Spanish Empire, which sent ships from Seville in the Iberian Peninsula to settle more land in the name of Spain. The settlement was named for Saint Joseph and the Catalonia region, as many of the settlers of San Jose were Catalans. The settlement developed from a small residential community into a colony with a church, farms, and military buildings, and it would destroy a neighboring colony of Portugal during the Portuguese Restoration War.